From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 23:36:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.freebsddiary.cx (210-55-152-36.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.152.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FC714F88 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 23:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@freebsddiary.cx) Received: from wocker (wocker.freebsddiary.cx [192.168.0.99]) by ns.freebsddiary.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA38470; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:36:02 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199906100636.SAA38470@ns.freebsddiary.cx> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: User Cesar Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:36:01 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FTP symbolic link Reply-To: dan@freebsddiary.cx Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <37570AF0.4ED2F00B@quik.guate.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Jun 99, at 23:08, User Cesar wrote: > Perhaps can you help me. I have to upload a 70MB file to my /var/ftp, but > I dont want to change my partition size, so I try to used a symbolic link > to /usr/home/something, but I dont know exactly how to do it. Thanks. You can't do that. ftpd uses chroot, which effectively sets the root directory for anonymous ftp sessions. So you cannot link to anything outside of the root directory for ftp. What you can do instead is change the root directory of ftp to be something else. Then do the symlink that way. I've simplified the process, but that should get your started. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message